Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1887-11-17
PAID THE PENALTY.
Four Of the Chicago Anarchists Meet
Their Fate.
The Murdered Men of the IIaymsrkel
Tragedy AvenSed--Incidents
.of tho Ciosiifg Scenes.

80.
CHICAGO, Nov. 1t.--Although 1t was
we'll understood that the precnts and ap.
proaches to the Cook county Jail would
be strongly guarded this morning by
heavy deiachmenls Of police and the corr
don would extend around the entire
square of the criminal cour, building from
Dearborn TO Clark, and Illinois to Mich.
igan streets. before day break large
!, crowds of men had assembled in the
vicinity, although they could do no more
than look at the frowning fortress Of the
Jail, within which it was known the hur-
ried preparations for the execution were
being completed. A sad and vacant cx-
preston fer the most part characterized
the features Of the onlookers and il was
not difficult to devine that they were
sympathizers with the doomed men and
probably many of them belonged to local
groups of the International Working
Peoples Association, with which all the
condemned anarchists were affiliated. As
the day wore on and the hour of execution
| arrived the constantly augmenting throngs
of people inpeded all business traffic in
the neighborhood. No demonstrations
of any kind seemed to be apprehcuded
by the police authorities. Captain Schuak
of the North Side police precinct, upon
whom the duty of guarding the Jail and
the prisoners also in a large measure al.
ways devolved appeared quite early on
the scene. He was quite grave and pre-.
occupied, but firmness and resolution
were manifested in all his acts and in the
instructions he gave to his subordinate
officers and aids. As the tall and COM
handing form of Sheriff Matson assembled
the steps leading across the interior lobby
of the building TO the court yard and Jail,
every eye was ccntered on him. He APP
pcared weighed down with anxiety and
there was every indication in the express
sion of his features that his sympathy
went out to the guilty men as the closing
moments Of their lives wore on and he was
preparing to execute the dread sentence
of the law. The ga lows which was used
for the execution of the Italian murderers
about couple of years ago was erecIe
in the north corridor of the Jail the usual
place of execution, and within which
space the prisoners cells are located. A
subsidiary scaffold had been constructed
in view of the inclusion of Fielden and
Schwab in the general death sentence but
was taken down when their sentence was
committed. No description could fairly
convey picture of the agonizing scenes
within the Jail this morning when for
the last time the wives and relatives of
the condemned were granted their last
interview. All the wealth of affection
and devotion cherished by the wives and
children of the condemned men and by
the men themselves for their wives and
offspring found at lost a mute, solemn
and fearful expression that moved the
stoutest hearts of those who witnessed 1t
and many were fain to turn away with
bedimmed eyes from the sight of such
grief as this. 1t showed clearly that love
is humanity's last refuge after all The
manifestation of this sublime compassion
appeared to exalt the men for the m oment
above and beyond the awful fate to which
they were to tread within so brief time
and melted the sturdiest of them to the
gentleness of child. II was not all quiet
though within these limits for the s1bbing
and moaning of the women and children
brought TO the last extremity of dispair
and hopelessncss, could be heardeven out.
side the great iron door leading TO the
jail. AT last the dread moment arrived
when the last words were TO be spoken,
the last kiss exchanged between those
y
undivided and the last fond aud lingering
look of weeping children and women was
taken before the afflicted and bereaved
group descended into the open court yard,
as none save the representatives Of the
press, the lawyers who had been associa-
ted in the defense. and those required to
be present at all State executions In con-
formity with the law, were admitted with
in tha cat fAr tIn
ton. Throughout the trying time of the
mems long imprisonment, Conrad Folz.
the jailer. his son, one Of the executive
officers Of the JAIL and the chief clerk,
Ben Price have done all in their power
through considerable and humane motives
to mitigate the rigors of the dynamiter's
protracted confinement, and for a long
time past no reasonable wish preferred by
the moro tractable and well-behaved
members of the fraternity of revolution
lists has remained ungrantcd or been
denied. The men without exception were
fully sensible of the special indulgences
granted to them and their relatives and
friends have expressed their sense OF
gratitude for countless little acts of kind
ness done for them by the Jail officers and
authorities. Before the actual time OF
execution arrived report spread through
out the mass of people assembled that
Governor Oglesby at the eleventh hour
had granted reprieye or temporary
respite. This news visibly changed the
couhtenanccs of the crowds, who at once
jumped to the conclusion that the rumor.
ed intervention of the Governor might
yet mean the salvation of perhaps all the
mems lives. As Notwithstanding this re-
port the busted preparations of the execu.
tives within the Jail continued. the feel
ing of relief and rejoicing on the part OF
the anarchist sympathizers quickly died
out again and none of the throng showed
any disposition to move away from the
locality until the announcement that the
dread fiat Of the law had been duly carried
out had been proclaimed. The spectators
In the streets were proportionately larger
from the North Side than from any other
section of the city, but at no time was
the crowd Of the magnitude that was all
along predicted and expected Sheriff
Matson appointed several deputy sherffs
under the immediate personal direction of
Conrad Folz, warden of the Jail, to adj
just the nooses on the men. They APP
preached their doom without evincing
any trepidation, appearing all reconciled
to offer up their lives for the promotion
of the cause in which they had conspired.
A strange and solemn hush pervaded the
entire interior Of the Jail and the precincts
where the dread scene was to be enacted.
Every one spoke in whispers All the
usual occupants of the numberless cells in
the Jail that could be removed were SEPT
to Joliet or confined elsewhere. The
interior was therefore nearly empty and
hollow and resounding echo follow
ed the steps of the Jail officials engaged
in the CHASTITY preparations. AT 3
O. clock this morning everything was
quiet at the Jail Sheriff Matson was
asleep in his private Office and nearly half
of the guard were enjoying rest also
The streets were almost deserted save by
police and watchmen. There was not the
slightest indication of any trouble. AT
80 the death watch was changed. Short
ly after 2 o'clock, Parsons was awaken
ed by noise made in the office and
complained that the noise prevented his
sleep, but soon after went to sleep again.
The other three condemned men slept
soundly. The scaffold was all ready for
service ut Q O. clock and was thoroughly